Chapter 63 Chapter 63 I miss you.
"I'll help you."
After Wang Daya finished speaking, she walked forward and wanted to help Liang Xin beat the eggs.
"Need not."
Liang Xin picked up the eggs and cracked them into the copper pot. "Just take a rest after you're done. I want to make this birthday cake by myself."
"I......"
"Oh, Daya!"
Li Mao held Wang Daya's shoulders and asked her to sit on the chair. "Why don't you understand? Just sit down. We haven't seen Master make anything for a long time. Watch and learn from him. This is a birthday cake!"
Liang Xin saw that they couldn't sit still, "Bring those newspapers over here."
Although Liang Xin reads the newspaper every day, she went to Jiangjing to attend university.
But Xia Xia, Li Mao and Wang Daya, three students who have to go to cultural cram school every day, still learn to read newspapers like Liang Xin every day. While understanding current affairs, they can also review and learn many new words.
Liang Xin finished beating ten eggs in a row, put the copper pot on the honeycomb coal stove, took out the electric egg beater, and looked back at the newspaper on the table, "From today on, when you read the newspaper every day, pay attention to the various product information. The product introductions related to food are the key points. It is best not to miss a single word."
"Product information?"
Xia Xia leaned over the People's Daily and said, "I don't think I've seen any product information."
"If this newspaper doesn't have it, just look at the next one."
Liang Xin walked to the honeycomb coal stove and said, "I'll subscribe to all the newspapers and magazines related to food and check them every day. Then, through the ever-changing food, I'll study the consumption psychology of people in today's society."
The four people didn’t understand, but they knew to look first.
Without any unnecessary nonsense, each of them took a newspaper and started to look at it.
Li Mao had already broken away from the Xinhua Dictionary and read faster and more carefully than the other three.
Liang Xin uses an electric whisk to beat eggs and sugar until they become white and fluffy, and the volume increases to become a thick foamy paste. Pick out a little bit, and turn off the whisk after the egg foam paste does not fall off.
"Logistics agrees to help the bakery build a flour mill at Jiangmen Farm. Who of you wants to go and work there?"
The four people who were reading newspapers looked up at the same time.
"Jiangmen Farm Flour Mill?"
Zhong Xuelian asked in surprise: "It takes an hour to get there from here, right?"
"almost."
Liang Xin sifted the flour, slowly poured it into the beaten egg batter, and added the melted butter. "If none of you want to go, the logistics department will arrange an administrator."
"administrator?"
Li Mao immediately raised his hand, "I'll go!"
"I can go too. No need for an administrator. I can go too."
Wang Daya looked at Liang Xin and said, "If you need someone, I'll go."
Xia Xia said, "It's not that I want to argue with you. How are you going to cook for the children? Among the four of us, I'm the only one who doesn't have this worry."
This is also the reason why Zhong Xuelian did not speak.
Liang Xin put the mixed dough on the chopping board and kneaded it into a moist dough. "I won't get involved in this. You guys can discuss it. In addition to the farm, there is also the first bakery branch in Jiangjing, and there is also a position for an administrator."
"Jiang Jing?!"
The four of them exclaimed in unison.
"Can we still go to Jiangjing?"
Li Mao asked in surprise: "If we go there, can we transfer our household registration? If not, where will we live and what will we do about the food ration?"
"If you go to work in Jiangjing and have a job, your household registration will naturally follow your job."
Liang Xin kneaded the dough, "The logistics will be arranged."
"Is this okay?"
Zhong Xuelian asked hesitantly, "I'm not doubting you, but I've been with the army for more than ten years, and the factories where the military dependents work are all with the troops. I've never heard of any factories arranging for the dependents to work in other places."
Liang Xin looked at Wang Daya and said, "I told you this position for Daya. I know that you three have families here and it's impossible for you to leave."
Wang Daya was stunned. "Me? Go, go, to Jiang Jing?"
Liang Xin put the kneaded dough into the baking pan and said before going to the kitchen: "Think about it. I'm just asking for your opinion. If you don't want to leave the bakery, just continue working here."
After Liang Xin put the cake into the oven and set the temperature and time, she came out and saw Wang Daya in a daze.
"It's good to stay here. Daya also has a house to live in. Although it's a little small, there's only one room, and the coal and bathroom need to be shared with other people."
Xia Xia hesitated and said, "But it's safe here, Liang Xin, why do you suddenly want Daya to go to the provincial capital?"
"Yeah, I can't figure it out either."
Li Mao looked at Liang Xin, "Daya is easily shy when meeting people, and she stutters more easily when she is nervous. If she stays here, she won't have to worry about the rest of her life. There are so many people who want to come but can't!"
"That's all."
Liang Xin didn't explain too much. "The flour mill has just been built, and the country has only recently proposed to restore and develop individual industry and commerce. You have plenty of time to consider it."
"I'll go."
Wang Daya suddenly said, "No need, think about it, I'll go."
Li Mao held Wang Daya and said, "Liang Xin finally helped you get a peaceful life, but you have only lived for a few days. Are you crazy?"
"So, I believe in Director Liang."
Wang Daya's eyes were full of trust in Liang Xin, "She definitely won't let me go without any reason."
Li Mao was stunned. "Yes, Liang Xin would never hurt you, but...what kind of life could be better than here?"
Wang Daya shook her head, "No, I'll go too."
Liang Xin laughed and said, "You worship me too blindly."
"I believe in Liang Xin too!"
Li Mao raised his hand. "I was the first one to raise my hand and say I wanted to go to the farm. I'll go. I have a horse carriage and deliver goods at about this time every day. At most, I won't be able to cook lunch for the children!"
"You, an official fan."
Zhong Xuelian said: "You don't believe Liang Xin at all, you are just competing with Yu Honghong."
"Why should I compete with her? I don't have the qualifications to compete with others. She comes from a certain family. I..."
Li Mao stopped talking abruptly. He looked at Yu Honghong who suddenly came in and whispered, "She's always elusive."
Zhong Xuelian stood up and asked, "What do you want to buy?"
"I'm not buying anything." Yu Honghong wore a white gauze mask, "I'm looking for Liang Xin."
Liang Xin was prying open a can of yellow peaches and looked up at her. "What's the matter?"
Yu Honghong's eyes were red as she asked, "Can we find a place where no one is around to talk?"
“I’m making a cake.”
Liang Xin looked into the kitchen and said, "The cake will be out of the oven soon."
Yu Honghong said: "Ask them to help you get it."
Liang Xin thought for a moment and said, "No, I want to do it myself. How about we talk about it another day?"
"I don't want to wait any longer."
Yu Honghong shook her head, her eyes getting redder, "Can I go to the kitchen?"
Liang Xin put down the can in her hand and walked to the kitchen.
After Yu Honghong followed in, she immediately said, "Liang Xin, I heard that the money that the logistics department originally invested in the pharmaceutical factory has now been used to invest in the flour mill. Can you talk to the logistics department and let me work as an administrator in the flour mill?"
Before Liang Xin could say anything, Yu Honghong sniffed and cried, "You are not in the 11th Division, you don't know how bad my life is. Almost everyone excludes me."
"Exclude you?"
Liang Xin leaned on the stove, "Why?"
"Why else?" Yu Honghong took out a handkerchief and covered her face. "It's all because of Xie Kangmei, the fake hero. He's still in the hospital, but the division has handed him over to the military court for trial. I don't know how many people looked down on me because of this. I was going to get a promotion at the pharmaceutical factory, but because you suddenly wanted to open a flour mill, I didn't get a promotion. It turns out that those family members who tried to please me didn't dare to say anything because of my dad, but they were all secretly ostracizing me."
"I opened a flour mill using the money that originally belonged to the bakery."
Liang Xin said slowly: "If you want the pharmaceutical factory to open a new production line, you can also find a way to get some funds to be invested in the pharmaceutical factory by the division logistics department. In this way, you can be the quality inspection manager of the new production line, and you can also provide jobs for more military dependents. Maybe you can also help the unemployed educated youth who have returned to the city to solve their work problems and contribute to the model city of supporting the army and the people."
Yu Honghong covered her face with a handkerchief and looked up at Liang Xin. "Liang Xin, you misunderstood. I didn't mean to complain about you. I meant to blame the logistics. The originally planned thing was suddenly cancelled, causing me to be implicated and excluded by others."
Liang Xin encouraged with a smile, "I think you have the ability to get more funding than the bakery."
Yu Honghong's mouth, which was covered by a handkerchief, froze. "I do have the ability, but I don't want to do it for those people anymore. They are a bunch of mean people who flatter the powerful and bully the weak! Liang Xin, I really don't want to stay in the 11th Division anymore. Please help me and tell the logistics department. This matter can be solved with just one word from you, right?"
"This is just a matter of your words."
Liang Xin said, "Go and tell Minister Yu that none of us can stop you from working as an administrator at the flour mill."
Yu Honghong's face began to become ugly. She held back her anger and said, "Liang Xin, you can save Yang Tao, you can help Liao Ting, and you can save Wang Daya. We are all lesbians, and we are all suffering. Why don't you save me?"
Liang Xin put on gloves and went to open the oven. "Be careful."
Yu Honghong quickly dodged the hot steam from the oven, smelling the sweet and fluffy cake and watching Liang Xin bring out a large fluffy cake. "What is this? You want to make a birthday cake?"
Liang Xin nodded.
Yu Honghong recalled the first time she met Liang Xin on the train. Thinking about the difference between the two families now, her eyes began to well up. "Thinking back to the day when we got married on the same day... How could people be so different from each other? We had the same background, but how could you become like this and Xie Kangmei become like that!"
Liang Xin put the baking tray on the square table. "I remember the last time we talked, you regretted that you shouldn't have compared Staff Officer Xie with me."
"It's hard not to compare them." Yu Honghong wiped her fresh tears with a handkerchief. "We are so destined to be together. You have the same background. The examples are all here. Who wouldn't be angry after seeing them?"
Li Mao couldn't help but walk in and said, "You got married on the same day, and you both have wives, so why don't you compare yourself with Liang Xin?"
"I?"
Yu Honghong paused while wiping her tears, "Liang Xin and I are not from the same family."
Li Mao curled his lips, "You mean you are from a higher class than Liang Xin?"
"Don't talk nonsense."
Yu Honghong said: "We can't choose our birthplace, and Liang Xin doesn't want to be born in the countryside."
Liang Xin smiled and said, "I think it's good to be born in the countryside, and I don't think being born in the countryside is inferior to being the children of cadres."
"Liang Xin, how could you misunderstand me just because of her provocation?" Yu Honghong said, "I also think that being born in the countryside is a good thing. My father always said that there is a lot of room for development in the countryside. I don't mean to look down on your background, really!"
Li Mao sneered, "Do you know the answer? According to what you said just now, why do you always compare Liang Xin with your staff officer Xie? Why don't you compare yourself with Deputy Commander Lu? You are from the same background."
Yu Honghong's face froze. "Why should I, a lesbian, compete with gay men?"
"Liang Xin is also a lesbian, why do you always compare her with Staff Officer Xie?"
Li Mao did not wait for Yu Honghong to answer and continued: "But you are actually quite self-aware on this point. You really can't compare to Liang Xin in any way. You are far inferior in appearance, character, awareness, and now academic qualifications..."
“Shut up!”
Yu Honghong was furious and said, "You have no right to talk to me!"
Li Mao was stunned. Liang Xin walked over slowly. "Qualifications? What qualifications?"
Yu Honghong suddenly shut up.
"cut!"
After Li Mao realized what was happening, he stood behind Liang Xin, pinched his waist and said, "Qualifications! What qualifications do you have? The qualifications of a high-ranking official's child? You usually pretend to be approachable, but no one can see that you think you are superior to others. Now you are so excited that you are showing your true colors!"
"you!"
Yu Honghong pointed at Li Mao, then put her hand down and looked at Liang Xin, "Liang Xin, I am giving you a chance. You also said that I have the ability to get the funds, but I just don't want to do it. If you don't agree, just say so. Don't let Sister Li Mao humiliate me here!"
Lu Chongfeng suddenly lifted the kitchen curtain, walked in with a cold face, stared at Yu Honghong and said, "What qualifications do you have to speak like this in front of Liang Xin?"
When Yu Honghong suddenly saw Lu Chongfeng, the arrogance she had just revealed instantly disappeared. When she heard what Lu Chongfeng said, her face became particularly ugly again.
Just as she was about to open her mouth, Lu Chongfeng didn't give her a chance to speak. "This time in the Vietnam War, 27 people died in the Jiangkou base and 16 were disabled. Liang Xin opened this bakery two years ago, and the operating profit totaled more than 39,600 yuan, all of which was used as additional pensions to the families of soldiers and martyrs. And what do you have to show off in front of her? Is it the glory of your fathers? Or is it your shamelessness?"
Yu Honghong's face turned red, her teeth chattered, and she threw her hands in anger, "If you don't want to help, then don't help. We still have a long way to go. We'll just have to wait and see!"
"Staff Officer Xie has been sentenced."
Lu Chongfeng said, "You are no longer a military dependent, and you can no longer stay in the pharmaceutical factory. I won't see you anymore."
Yu Honghong's momentum froze again.
Liang Xin said slowly: "They are all at Jiangkou Base, you can still see them."
"Oh, I forgot that she has the glory of her father."
Lu Chongfeng stared at Yu Honghong, his eyes deep and unfathomable, "You are not the only one who has the glory of our fathers, and you are not the only one who can use it. If you dare to talk like this in front of Liang Xin again..."
Yu Honghong's angry face suddenly turned pale, and her eyes became a little helpless.
"As for you personally..."
Lu Chongfeng raised his chin and didn't even look at Yu Honghong.
Yu Honghong felt miserable.
She understood what Lu Chongfeng meant, that she was not worthy to compare with him!
He even disdains to compare with her!
Yu Honghong almost pinched several holes in her handkerchief and left the kitchen angrily.
He walked a long way out of the bakery before he stopped in anger, kicked the telephone pole, and looked back at the bakery in the distance, "Just wait!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a voice came from behind, "Comrade, did you see Deputy Commander Lu walk over?"
Yu Honghong was startled and turned around to see the two cadres approaching her from the front and back. She wondered if they had heard her appearance and words just now.
After observing for a few seconds, I determined that I was not being heard.
Yu Honghong adjusted her friendly smile and was about to answer when another soldier who had caught up with her said, "It's Captain Lu, not Deputy Captain Lu!"
Yu Honghong's friendly smile froze on her face again, "Captain Lu? Has he been promoted to a full regimental cadre?"
"That's what I said."
The soldier laughed and said, "Let's not talk about our 11th Division. Let's talk about the entire Jiangkou base. Is there any cadre more qualified to be promoted to the rank of regiment commander than Commander Lu?"
Another soldier said, "If Commander Lu had not personally directed the reform and ideological liberation in the 22nd Regiment, it would have been natural for him to be promoted to deputy division-level cadre based on his performance on the battlefield!"
Yu Honghong left with an extremely unhappy look on her face.
There was no answer to the two officers who were so happy that they looked like they had been promoted.
"You made it for me, why can't you show it to me?"
Lu Chongfeng was pushed out by Liang Xin, but he was unwilling to leave the kitchen. He relied on his height to see the cake on the stove clearly, "I've seen it all, don't chase me away."
“It’s just a work in progress.”
Liang Xin couldn't push him and was too lazy to waste any more energy. "Didn't I tell you not to come to the bakery today? Why did you suddenly come here?"
Lu Chongfeng glanced outside, leaned over and whispered to Liang Xin's ear, "I miss you."
Liang Xin's ears felt slightly hot, and she was suddenly unable to utter a word.
Lu Chongfeng kissed Liang Xin's earlobe, but was pushed away by Liang Xin the next second.
Liang Xin covered her ears and looked at Lu Chongfeng with a bright smile, "You should get busy now."
"I'm not busy."
"I'm hungry."
"Then I'll go back and cook."
Lu Chongfeng walked away with a heroic and high-spirited look on his face.
"Liang Xin is back, and Deputy Head Lu is in a different mood."
Li Mao looked at Lu Chongfeng who was walking out and shouted to the kitchen, "Like a living person."
Liang Xin waited until the heat in her ears died down before she carried the cake out of the kitchen and placed it on the long table.
Take out the decorating turntable and place the cake on it.
Go and cut the yellow peach that you just cut in half.
When I was carrying the birthday cake and side dishes home, I could see smoke rising from the kitchen roof from afar.
Liang Xin felt warm in her heart and walked in with a smile, "What are you burning?"
I didn't hear any sound, but I smelled the smell of burnt rice.
Liang Xin put the cake on the table, walked quickly through the corridor, and saw that the entire kitchen was full of white smoke. Fortunately, there was no one inside.
“........”
Tidy up the kitchen and scoop out the burnt rice and throw it away.
Liang Xin looked at the sky outside and saw that the sun was setting in the west.
I took out my apron, put it on, and started cooking the dishes I had planned to make when I got back.
After washing the cucumber, rinse it with cold boiled water, cut off the two ends, split it into four cuts along the length, dig out the pulp, and then cut it diagonally into comb-shaped pieces. Add a little salt and spread it evenly, and set it aside to marinate for thirty minutes.
Liang Xin cleaned the pig's trotter, cut it open along the bones, and blanched it in boiling water in a stainless steel pot.
After taking it out, apply rice wine and soy sauce on the skin.
Walk to the stove, light the fire in the stove, put in firewood, put oil into the hot pot, pour in soy sauce, and when the oil is 80% hot, put the pig's trotter into the pot and fry it.
The aroma of fried pork skin permeated her heart. Looking at the pig trotter gradually being fried into red, Liang Xin couldn't help swallowing her saliva.
Take out the fried pig's trotters and put them into a bowl one by one. Add rice wine, salt, sugar, soy sauce, pepper, ginger slices and scallions, then put them in a steamer and start steaming.
A large pot stove is used to steam food using firewood, which will make it more fragrant than using a steel steamer on a honeycomb coal stove.
Liang Xin washed the rice, poured it into a flat pan, and steamed the rice using a honeycomb coal stove.
I glanced at the time on my watch, took out the ginger, peeled it, cut it into thick slices, put it into a garlic mortar and mashed it, squeezed out the ginger juice and poured it out, added sugar, fine salt, MSG and sesame oil to the juice and mixed it, washed the pickled cucumbers with cold boiled water to remove the salt, squeezed out the water, and then poured the ginger juice on the cucumbers.
Suddenly, there was the sound of hurried running at the door.
Lu Chongfeng rushed into the house and strode into the kitchen. When he saw Liang Xin glance at him, his chest, which had been heaving violently, calmed down.
"Someone from the division headquarters suddenly came to call me." Lu Chongfeng propped one hand on the door frame. "I didn't know what was going on, so I went. As we were chatting, I forgot that the rice was still cooking on the stove."
Liang Xin sat on the stool in front of the stove and said, "Don't forget it next time."
Lu Chongfeng nodded and walked to the sink in the yard to wash his hands. "Why don't you ask me what the division wants from me?"
“When did I ever ask you about your job?”
"Too."
Lu Chongfeng picked up the soap and said, "I got a promotion."
Liang Xin was startled when she heard his light voice and walked to the kitchen door, "Where did Captain Shen go?"
Now it was Lu Chongfeng's turn to be stunned. He turned around and looked at Liang Xin, "I haven't told you yet, how do you know that I was promoted to regimental commander and not some other position in the division?"
Liang Xin suddenly showed surprise and joy, "Wow, Captain!"
Lu Chongfeng raised his chin and said, "That's right!"
Seeing his expression of enjoying it even though he knew it was fake, Liang Xin chuckled and went back to the stove to watch the fire.
Lu Chongfeng followed in, "You haven't told me how you knew I was promoted to the head of the 22nd Regiment. Did you hear the news in advance?"
"No."
Liang Xin used the tongs to stir the ashes. "But don't you want to reform? So far, you have only made preliminary reforms in military training. Although you have been certified after the Vietnam War, the reforms you want to make have not really begun. Strike while the iron is hot. You will definitely not miss this opportunity to take on other positions."
"You are amazing."
Lu Chongfeng half-knelt in front of Liang Xin's knees, "With a wife like this, what else could a husband ask for?"
Liang Xin curled the corners of her lips slightly, looked at his focused black eyes, and couldn't help but lean over and kiss his perfectly curved lips.
Lu Chongfeng grabbed Liang Xin's head, but Liang Xin reached out to stop him, "I have to watch the fire. I've already wasted a pot of rice. Don't mess around."
Lu Chongfeng reluctantly let go of her hand, "It was obviously you who hooked me first."
Liang Xin got up and walked around to the stove. When two hours had passed, she opened the lid of the pot, took out the soft and rotten pig's trotters, picked out the ginger slices and softened green onion segments with chopsticks, let them dry, and took out the cornstarch and sprinkled it evenly on the pig's trotters.
"Take the firewood outside to the stove."
Lu Chongfeng took the burning firewood and put it into the hearth of another large pot. He looked at Liang Xin pressing the pig trotter and asked, "Why are you cooking such a complicated dish tonight?"
Liang Xin looked up at him without saying anything. She put the pig's trotters into the oil pan and fried them again. When they were crispy, she took them out and drained the oil. "Go outside and fetch a bucket of well water."
Lu Chongfeng didn't ask any further questions, thinking that she wanted to use the well water to cool the watermelon or for other purposes, so he picked up the bucket and strode out.
When he came back and passed through the long hall, he inadvertently glanced at the square table and suddenly stopped.
On the square table was a pot of fried and diced pig's trotters, with steamed buns, a dish of pepper salt, a small bowl of sweet noodle sauce and green onions on the side.
In addition to pig's trotters, there was also a plate of fried squid with celery, a plate of mantis shrimp, and a plate of ginger-flavored cucumbers...
What caught the eye was the birthday cake surrounded by dishes.
The round cake is covered with a thick layer of white cream, as white as snow and exudes a sweet aroma.
A circle of cream lace was placed on the cream, and a circle of cherries was dotted inside the lace. In the middle, a pair of little people were drawn with pink and light green cream.
It’s Liang Xin and her.
The villain pair finally has a new color.
There are words written in red jam below the villain:
Happy birthday, husband
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